Sioux

The Sioux are a nation of Native Americans including the Dakota, Lakota (or the Teton Sioux), and Yankton Sioux. The Sioux were once the dominant people of the Great Plains, and they were a strong confederacy of tribes that had fierce warriors but a peaceful society. Unfortunately, wars with the United States in the 1860s into the 1880s led to the Sioux being confined to reservations. By 2016, there were only 170,110 full-blooded Sioux left in America, while the rest were either killed, died of disease, or intermarried with the whites. Today, many belong to sycretistic branches of Christianity in addition to their animist Wakan Tanka and Midewiwin beliefs.